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TODD</br>
What is that?</br>
MRS. LOVETT</br>
It's priest.</br>
Have a little priest. |
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TODD</br>
Is it really good?</br>
MRS. LOVETT</br>
Sir, it's too good,</br>
At least.</br>
Then again, they don't commit sins of the flesh,</br>
So it's pretty fresh. |
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TODD</br>
(looking at it)</br>
Awful lot of fat. |
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MRS. LOVETT</br>
Only where it sat. |
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TODD</br>
Haven't you got poet</br>
Or something like that? |
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MRS. LOVETT</br>
No, you see the trouble with poet</br>
Is, how do you know it's</br>
Deceased? |
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MRS. LOVETT</br>
Try the priest. |
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MRS. LOVETT</br>
Lawyer's rather nice.</br>
TODD</br>
If it's for a price. |
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MRS. LOVETT</br>
Order something else, though, to follow,</br>
Since no one should swallow</br>
It twice. |
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TODD</br>
Anything that’s lean.</br>
MRS. LOVETT</br>
Well, then, if you’re British and loyal,</br>
You might enjoy Royal</br>
Marine. |
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Anyway, it's clean.</br>
Though, of course, it tastes of wherever it's been.</br>
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TODD</br>
Is that squire</br>
On the fire? |
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MRS. LOVETT</br>
Mercy no, sir,</br>
Look closer,</br>
You'll notice it's grocer.
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TODD</br>
Looks thicker.</br>
More like vicar.
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MRS. LOVETT</br>
No, it has to be grocer -- it's green.
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TODD</br>
The history of the world, my love--</br>
MRS. LOVETT</br>
Save a lot of graves,</br>
Do a lot of relatives favors...</br>
TODD</br>
--Is those below serving those up above.</br>
MRS. LOVETT</br>
Everybody shaves,</br>
So there should be plenty of flavors...</br>
TODD</br>
How gratifying for once to know</br>
That those above will serve those down below! |
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TODD</br>
What is that?</br>
MRS. LOVETT</br>
It's fop.</br>
Finest in the shop. |
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Or we have some shepherd's pie peppered</br>
With actual shepherd</br>
On top.</br>
And I've just begun. |
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Here's a politician -- so oily</br>
It's served with a doily--</br>
Have one?
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TODD</br>
Put it on a bun.</br>
Well, you never know if it's going to run.</br>
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MRS. LOVETT</br>
Try the friar.</br>
Fried, it's drier.</br>
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TODD</br>
No, the clergy is really</br>
Too coarse and too mealy.</br>
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MRS. LOVETT</br>
Then actor--</br>
That's compacter.
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TODD</br>
Yes, and always arrives overdone.</br>
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I'll come again when you</br>
Have Judge on the menu...</br>
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